In the end, the gesture of painting becomes almost meditative, like a ritual.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.
Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible.
I'm still very sure that painting is one of the most basic human capacities, like dancing and singing, that make sense, that stay with us, as something human.
Painting is a coalescing of experience.
Painting is almost like a sport. It's like this action thing. When I do it, I'm really not thinking. The paintings are like a diary that I might not want to read again.
Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.
Painting is, I think, inevitably an archaic activity and one that depends on spiritual values.
Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive.
Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.